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This issue's cover feature is from this year's NRA World Shooting Championship held at Camp Atterbury, Ind., in April. Plus, Maggie Kelch has an interview with top sporting clays competitor Desirae Edmunds, a six-time NSCA Ladies champion. Also, be sure to read Range Bag with University of Akron rifle team standout Gavin Perkowski.
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The May issue also includes Frank Melloni's review of the new Crosman 3622 PCP air rifle. Another must-read is Field Editor Chris Christian's introduction to Know Your Limits rimfire rifle competition. Finally, don't miss Field Editor Art Merrill's feature on the Model 1891 Argentine rifle for Vintage Military Rifle matches.
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A shooter's score and position on the leaderboard will be determined by their performance at the match. Unfortunately, mistakes made before the match can often combine to thwart their best performance. Here are some mistakes shooters should avoid making prior to a competition. Read More
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The National Rifle Association of America is pleased to announce the addition of two new national championships to the competitive shooting calendar for 2024, the NRA F-Class Fullbore Rifle Long-Range Nationals and the NRA F-Class Fullbore Rifle Mid-Range Nationals. At its 2023 Winter Meeting, the NRA Board of Directors created a new standing committee for F-Class High Power Rifle, splitting F-Class High Power Rifle out from the old High Power Rifle Committee, where F-Class had resided since 2005. Read More
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Speed, power and accuracy. Blend these three elements, and you have the most dynamic shooting sport ever devised—USPSA. Practical shooting was established as the International Practical Shooting Confederation in 1976 to organize the various independent efforts to build shooting skills and train for self-defense. The sport's early days date back to the 1950s, with quick-draw "leather slap" matches popular in the desert Southwest. Read More
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JP Enterprises sponsored shooters dominated the field at the 2024 Magpul Texas 3-Gun Championship, held at Reveille Peak Ranch in Burnet, Texas, April 19-21. Varick Beise, age 17, claimed the overall match win with a 12 percent lead as a Junior while clinching first place in Open division. Beise's final time was 473.49 seconds, taking the title by a whopping 90.32-second margin over the match runner-up, Nate Schmidt. Read More
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Rare and often misunderstood, the U.S. Marine Corps .22 Long Rifle caliber MC-58 training rifle is nonetheless an interesting footnote to American and Marine Corps history. Designed to replicate the "feel" of the M1 Garand for recruits, the MC-58 ultimately rode on the coattails of the M14 service rifle, and suffered the M14's same abbreviated service life. Read More
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Team Savage's Matt Alwine topped the leaderboard in Factory division at the 2024 National Rifle League Manners Elite Hunter competition, which took place in Grandfield, Oklahoma, April 12-14. The 2024 NRL Manners Elite Hunter match was centered around realistic hunting experiences true to Southern Oklahoma, with blind stages that tested competitors across all aspects of shooting and hunting. There were 19 stages in total. Read More
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Savage Arms recently introduced the new TIMBER series of precision-engineered rimfire rifles with both bolt-action and semi-automatic versions available now. The TIMBER series from Savage includes three new rimfire models, the TIMBER Thumbhole, TIMBERLite Thumbhole and TIMBERLite rifles. Each firearm is available in bolt-action (B-Series) as well as .22 LR semi-automatic (A-Series) with caliber options including .22 LR, .17 HMR and .22 WMR. Read More
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Precision rimfire shooting sensation and Vudoo Gun Works competitor Camdyn Powers secured the top title at the 2024 Utah's Rimfire Revival-The Revenge match, a NRL22X competition held at the North Springs Shooting Range in Price, Utah, on April 20. Not only did Powers top the overall match leaderboard, she also won the Ladies division. Read More
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Singular among the 2,000-odd competitors at the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, in 1931 was a former soldier, Samuel Woodfill. Woodfill was one of three individuals, cited by name in Gen. John J. Pershing's memoir of World War I, "as typifying the spirit of the rank and file of our great army." The other two were Sgt. Alvin York and Lt. Col. Charles Whittlesey. Sgt. York is a legendary figure from World War I history, and Lt. Col. Whittlesey was the commanding officer of the "Lost Battalion." Read More
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Just as the momentum created by increasingly larger rosters of competitors at the National Matches pushed administrative personnel to the limit, the far-flung effects of the Great Depression hit home and the federal appropriation for the conduct of the National Matches was withdrawn. Once again, the NRA stepped in to provide shooters with some semblance of a national competition... Read More
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The National Rifle Association of America has announced that MidwayUSA is the official sponsor of the 2024 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Dallas, Texas, May 17-19. "We're pleased to continue our support of the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits and look forward to joining our customers at this great event in Dallas," Midway USA President and CEO Matt Fleming said. Read More
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Staccato recently announced that its Staccato Ranch private gun club in Florence, Texas, will open to members on Saturday, May 11. Nestled on 770 acres of scenic landscape north of Austin in Texas Hill Country, Staccato Ranch is home to Staccato headquarters, where the company's 2011 handguns and ammunition are made. Read More
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